Health Care News - States Grapple with Medicaid Reform

This is a summary of states' Medicaid reform efforts, focusing primarily on Tennessee's dramatic overhaul of TennCare, "the most expensive [such] program in the country."

Budget & Tax News - Pressure for Market-Based Medicaid Reform Rises

Excerpt: "Medicaid's skyrocketing expenditures are reaching a breaking point in state budgets, experts say, and state legislatures are responding with sweeping new reform bills that fundamentally change the way states finance and deliver the federally mandated program."

American Legislative Exchange Council - Medicaid Reform

Excerpt: "While state expenditures for the program soar, Medicaid inefficiently and ineffectively delivers its promise of health care for the poor. Access for needy families to quality health care needs to be a primary goal in the reform of the current system, and the best way to create a cost-efficient and effective program is to remove a large portion of the control over the program from the realm of state governments and place that control squarely in the hands of the Medicaid recipient."